it's OK with me if you think i'm a 'moron'
What I think is that you are dangerously manic. Fortunately for the rest of
us and for bionet-neuroscience, you will probably cycle around to a
depressive state soon enough and we won't be subjected to your tripe and
delusions of grandeur.
"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:xcwQ8.53236$UT.3582900 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> all behavior is produced as a =by-product= of nervous systems doing
exactly
> one thing: 'seeking' to minimize the topologically-distributed ratios of
> excitation to inhibition that occur within them.
>> please give me any example that you propose as a 'contradiction'.
>> 'of course' environmental factors exert 'pressures' that become manifest
in
> behavior, but all this occurs in a 'blindly'-automated way, via TD
> E/I-minimization within nervous systems.
>> and when understanding of how and why the 'blind'-automation occurs within
> nervous systems comes to exist within nervous systems, the
> 'blind'-automation 'disappears'.
>> the understanding of how nervous systems process-information changes
> everything.
>> for instance, one possessing the understanding can See that folks who
> experience different environments will experience TD E/I-minimization
> differentially with respect to any given 'entity'. understanding this, one
> can See that the 'passions' that're are 'just' 'servo-mechanisms' within
> 'blindly'-automated probabilistic functionality. Seeing this, one can
Choose
> behavior which transcends resort to 'recrimination'.
>> why is such useful?
>> folks Ravage one another because they 'blindly'-and-automatically allow
the
> 'passion' to Dictate behavior.
>> the understanding, thus, allows folks to transcend this
> interpersonally-inflicted Ravaging.
>> look at it another way - even Physics is Neuroscience, be-cause Physics is
> done through-the-'lens' of nervous system function.
>> understand nervous system function, and the 'lens' through which Physics
> [and everything else] is done transforms from being something analagous to
> one of those 'translucent-wavy-glass-building-bricks, which interfere with
> vision, into crystal-clarity.
>> that which imposes 'blindness' disappears.
>> again, please give me any example that you propose as a 'contradiction'.
>> and, if you prefer not to offer such an example, let's go our separate
ways.
> it's OK with me if you think i'm a 'moron'. don't 'worry' about it.
>> k. p. collins
>>> Glen M. Sizemore wrote in message <3d122cfd$1_5 at news5.nntpserver.com>...
> >Behavioral facts are not neurobiological facts and neurobiological facts
> are
> >not behavioral facts. That is simply the way it is. The notion that we
will
> >solve the frightening problems facing us by "better understanding the
> brain"
> >is silly for two reasons. 1.) We know very little about how the brain
> >"brings about behavior" (actually it is better to say "how the brain
> >mediates the effects of the environment") and 2.) It will probably never
be
> >possible or practical to change behavior in a widespread way by direct
> >intervention with nervous tissue.
> >
> >If we wish to avoid the inevitable disaster toward which we seem to be
> >moving, we will need to understand the phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior
> as
> >well as cultural processes. Neurobiology will remain largely irrelevant.
> >
> >"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> >news:KDoQ8.52341$UT.3533834 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...> >> Glen M. Sizemore wrote in message
<3d11cb34$1_6 at news5.nntpserver.com>...
> >> >KC: it's=all= Neuroscience, all appropriate for bionet.neuroscience,
all
> >> >stuff upon which the Survival of Humanity depends, and unavailable
> >anywhere
> >> >else on the face of the planet.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >GS: If you think the solution to world problems is "in the brain" you
> are
> >a
> >> >bigger moron than you appear to be (wait.....that's not possible). To
> >alter
> >> >ourselves in ways conducive to the survival of our culture and species
> is
> >a
> >> >matter of arranging environments and this is behavioral science, not
> >> >neurobiology. Neurobiology will not contribute one iota to solutions
for
> >> the
> >> >massive problems that face us.
> >>
> >>
> >> ho, ho, ho,
> >>
> >> Behavioral Science is Neuroscience. even in the realm of the
> Supernatural.
> >> One cannot experience a Miracle if it does not, in some way, impact the
> >> physically-real stuff of one's nervous system.
> >>
> >> if you 'disagree', please give me any example that you propose as a
> >> 'contradiction'.
> >>
> >> "arranging environments"
> >>
> >> Same-Stuff. Gains it's relevancy through the 'lens' of the nervous
> system,
> >> in exactly the way i've been describing.
> >>
> >> if you 'disagree', please give me any example that you propose as a
> >> 'contradiction'.
> >>
> >> k. p. collins
> >>
> >> >[...]
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>>